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Wordle 1838 4/6 flirt money chugs bused

[not the nyt wordle, but the older one and since no one else seems to do
it i have no compunction in spoiling anothers fun]

the wiktionary has BUSED as an alternate spelling of BUSSED.

bussing itself seems to be either the 1) act of being in (or made to be
in) a bus (the vehicle) or clearing tables. both of which seem sketchy
in the my usage universe. do others think it's legit?



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Le 01/07/2026 |a 10:52, Madhu a |-crit :

Wordle 1838 4/6 flirt money chugs bused

[not the nyt wordle, but the older one and since no one else seems to do
it i have no compunction in spoiling anothers fun]

the wiktionary has BUSED as an alternate spelling of BUSSED.

bussing itself seems to be either the 1) act of being in (or made to be
in) a bus (the vehicle) or clearing tables. both of which seem sketchy
in the my usage universe. do others think it's legit?

I'm not keen on it. 'Bussed' is how I'd say it, like 'cussed' or
'fussed'. 'Bused' looks as if it would have the 'u' of 'fused'.

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On 01/07/2026 11:52, Madhu wrote:

Wordle 1838 4/6 flirt money chugs bused

[not the nyt wordle, but the older one and since no one else seems to do
it i have no compunction in spoiling anothers fun]

the wiktionary has BUSED as an alternate spelling of BUSSED.

bussing itself seems to be either the 1) act of being in (or made to be
in) a bus (the vehicle) or clearing tables. both of which seem sketchy
in the my usage universe. do others think it's legit?

Nothing wrong in 'bussed' in my usage, meaning carried in a bus. "The
evacuees were bussed to the nearest shelter". 'Bused' (beewzed) sounds
like abused.

If you acknowledge that 'fused' (electrical plug) is different to
'fussed' (bothered) then 'fused' cannot be an alternative spelling.
Neither is 'bused', wiktionary of no wiktionary.
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On 01/07/2026 11:12, occam wrote:

On 01/07/2026 11:52, Madhu wrote:

Wordle 1838 4/6 flirt money chugs bused

[not the nyt wordle, but the older one and since no one else seems to do
it i have no compunction in spoiling anothers fun]

the wiktionary has BUSED as an alternate spelling of BUSSED.

bussing itself seems to be either the 1) act of being in (or made to be
in) a bus (the vehicle) or clearing tables. both of which seem sketchy
in the my usage universe. do others think it's legit?

Nothing wrong in 'bussed' in my usage, meaning carried in a bus. "The evacuees were bussed to the nearest shelter". 'Bused' (beewzed) sounds
like abused.

I'm not keen.
Are people "trained" to some destination?
Boated? ("Shipped" refers to cargo, not people.)
Car-ed (however you might try to spell that)?
Coached? Charabanc'ed?

If you acknowledge that 'fused' (electrical plug) is different to
'fussed' (bothered) then 'fused' cannot be an alternative spelling.
Neither is 'bused', wiktionary of no wiktionary.

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In article <MXc1S.831$Vos7.22@fx09.ams1>, Sam Plusnet <not@home.com> wrote:

I'm not keen.
Are people "trained" to some destination?
Boated? ("Shipped" refers to cargo, not people.)
Car-ed (however you might try to spell that)?
Coached? Charabanc'ed?

You might be carted off. Or bulldozered.

-- Richard
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On 01/07/26 20:12, occam wrote:

Nothing wrong in 'bussed' in my usage, meaning carried in a bus.
"The evacuees were bussed to the nearest shelter". 'Bused' (beewzed)
sounds like abused.

Surely a-bused would be the opposite of bused.

I first became aware of "bussed" when it became controversial in the
USA, probably late 1970s. Black children were disadvantaged by going to inferior schools. The proposed solution, which was actually put into
practice, was to uses buses to take kids from wealthy areas to poor
schools, and vice versa.

(The alternative, of moving the teachers, was not considered. I assume
that by now the problem is tackled by more equitable funding.)
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Newcastle, NSW
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In article <1124a40$281qf$1@dont-email.me>,
Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org> wrote:

I first became aware of "bussed" when it became controversial in the
USA, probably late 1970s. Black children were disadvantaged by going to >inferior schools. The proposed solution, which was actually put into >practice, was to uses buses to take kids from wealthy areas to poor
schools, and vice versa.

(The alternative, of moving the teachers, was not considered. I assume
that by now the problem is tackled by more equitable funding.)

Oh you sweet summer child.

The problem is "tackled" by white parents moving to suburban school
districts so their children are not in the same districts as Black and
Latino children.

Only one state AFAIK has done anything about the funding, and it's one
of the whitest states in the union: Vermont. One of the richest towns
in the state tried to secede over it. (I assume they wanted to rejoin
New Hampshire rather than siding with the New York claims.)

ObAUE: "busing" and "bused" are used by some writers to avoid
confusion with "bussing" and "bussed" (referring to osculation). The
fact that desegregation coincided with the decline in phonics for
teaching reading may perhaps be related.

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On Thu, 2 Jul 2026 10:07:28 +1000, Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org>
wrote:

On 01/07/26 20:12, occam wrote:

Nothing wrong in 'bussed' in my usage, meaning carried in a bus.
"The evacuees were bussed to the nearest shelter". 'Bused' (beewzed)
sounds like abused.

Surely a-bused would be the opposite of bused.

I first became aware of "bussed" when it became controversial in the
USA, probably late 1970s. Black children were disadvantaged by going to >inferior schools. The proposed solution, which was actually put into >practice, was to uses buses to take kids from wealthy areas to poor
schools, and vice versa.

(The alternative, of moving the teachers, was not considered. I assume
that by now the problem is tackled by more equitable funding.)

I would not consider moving the teachers to be a viable alternative.

The schools the black children would have attended were woefully
inadequate. Both the physical facilities and teaching equipment was
lacking in those schools. Putting good teachers in inadequate
facilities would lead to teacher resignations.

The advantage of bussing white children from the better schools to the
formerly black schools would have created improvement because white, upper-class parents would become involved in improving the facilities.
The powers would listen to those people, and act.




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On 2/07/2026 2:30 p.m., Garrett Wollman wrote:

In article <1124a40$281qf$1@dont-email.me>,
Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org> wrote:

I first became aware of "bussed" when it became controversial in the
USA, probably late 1970s. Black children were disadvantaged by going to
inferior schools. The proposed solution, which was actually put into
practice, was to uses buses to take kids from wealthy areas to poor
schools, and vice versa.

(The alternative, of moving the teachers, was not considered. I assume
that by now the problem is tackled by more equitable funding.)

Oh you sweet summer child.

The problem is "tackled" by white parents moving to suburban school
districts so their children are not in the same districts as Black and
Latino children.

Only one state AFAIK has done anything about the funding, and it's one
of the whitest states in the union: Vermont. One of the richest towns
in the state tried to secede over it. (I assume they wanted to rejoin
New Hampshire rather than siding with the New York claims.)

ObAUE: "busing" and "bused" are used by some writers to avoid
confusion with "bussing" and "bussed" (referring to osculation). The
fact that desegregation coincided with the decline in phonics for
teaching reading may perhaps be related.

-GAWollman

Good grief! Yes, children, English spelling does have rules, but English spellers will go to outlandish lengths to break them. I remember being
told, as a child, that "buss" could mean "kiss". Not for me it couldn't,
nor for anybody I knew, or even my parents. It was well and truly
obsolete usage, even in the 1950s. Yet people cherished its memory,
because it gave them an excuse to write "bused" and "busing".

Maybe you're right, and people somehow became ashamed of teaching the
rules of spelling (phonics) because they were so grossly abused.
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On 2026-07-02, Peter Moylan wrote:

On 01/07/26 20:12, occam wrote:

Nothing wrong in 'bussed' in my usage, meaning carried in a bus.
"The evacuees were bussed to the nearest shelter". 'Bused' (beewzed)
sounds like abused.

Surely a-bused would be the opposite of bused.

I first became aware of "bussed" when it became controversial in the
USA, probably late 1970s. Black children were disadvantaged by going to inferior schools. The proposed solution, which was actually put into practice, was to uses buses to take kids from wealthy areas to poor
schools, and vice versa.

(The alternative, of moving the teachers, was not considered. I assume
that by now the problem is tackled by more equitable funding.)

I think the problem has not been tackled in general.
--
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Hope it doesn't take too long
Can't you see there'll come a day when it won't matter?
Come a day when you'll be gone ---Boston
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On 02/07/26 13:41, Tony Cooper wrote:

On Thu, 2 Jul 2026 10:07:28 +1000, Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org>
wrote:

On 01/07/26 20:12, occam wrote:

Nothing wrong in 'bussed' in my usage, meaning carried in a bus.
"The evacuees were bussed to the nearest shelter". 'Bused'
(beewzed) sounds like abused.

Surely a-bused would be the opposite of bused.

I first became aware of "bussed" when it became controversial in
the USA, probably late 1970s. Black children were disadvantaged by
going to inferior schools. The proposed solution, which was
actually put into practice, was to uses buses to take kids from
wealthy areas to poor schools, and vice versa.

(The alternative, of moving the teachers, was not considered. I
assume that by now the problem is tackled by more equitable
funding.)

I would not consider moving the teachers to be a viable alternative.

The schools the black children would have attended were woefully
inadequate. Both the physical facilities and teaching equipment was
lacking in those schools. Putting good teachers in inadequate
facilities would lead to teacher resignations.

The advantage of bussing white children from the better schools to
the formerly black schools would have created improvement because
white, upper-class parents would become involved in improving the
facilities. The powers would listen to those people, and act.

Which powers?

In Australia, primary and secondary education are state
responsibilities. State agencies control the funding, the syllabus, the allocation of teachers to schools, etc. If there are any inequities,
it's up to the states to fix the problem. I believe it's much the same
in all European countries. Either states, where relevant, or some higher
level of government.

As I understand it, US schools are controlled at a more local level. If
a school is poor, it's because the local authority is funded by poor
people. What remedies are available for that problem?
--
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Newcastle, NSW
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On 01/07/2026 20:08, Richard Tobin wrote:

In article <MXc1S.831$Vos7.22@fx09.ams1>, Sam Plusnet <not@home.com> wrote:

I'm not keen.
Are people "trained" to some destination?
Boated? ("Shipped" refers to cargo, not people.)
Car-ed (however you might try to spell that)?
Coached? Charabanc'ed?

You might be carted off. Or bulldozered.

-- Richard

"My wife's gone to Indonesia"
"Jakarta?"
"No, she went by plane"
--
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richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) wrote or quoted:

In article <MXc1S.831$Vos7.22@fx09.ams1>, Sam Plusnet <not@home.com> wrote: >>I'm not keen.

Are people "trained" to some destination?
Boated? ("Shipped" refers to cargo, not people.)
Car-ed (however you might try to spell that)?
Coached? Charabanc'ed?

You might be carted off. Or bulldozered.

"Busification" might sound like it means "to make someone
busy," but in Ukraine, -#-a-U-+-a-+-|-#-a-+-A (busyfikatsiya) actually
means forcing someone into a bus. "busik" (-#-a-U-+-|) is a
slang term for a minibus. This term is almost always linked to
military conscription, referring to how people are sometimes
snatched off the street and loaded into these vans.


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Sam Plusnet <not@home.com> posted:

On 01/07/2026 11:12, occam wrote:

On 01/07/2026 11:52, Madhu wrote:

Wordle 1838 4/6 flirt money chugs bused

[not the nyt wordle, but the older one and since no one else seems to do >> it i have no compunction in spoiling anothers fun]

the wiktionary has BUSED as an alternate spelling of BUSSED.

bussing itself seems to be either the 1) act of being in (or made to be
in) a bus (the vehicle) or clearing tables. both of which seem sketchy
in the my usage universe. do others think it's legit?

Nothing wrong in 'bussed' in my usage, meaning carried in a bus. "The evacuees were bussed to the nearest shelter". 'Bused' (beewzed) sounds like abused.

I'm not keen.
Are people "trained" to some destination?
Boated? ("Shipped" refers to cargo, not people.)
Car-ed (however you might try to spell that)?
Coached? Charabanc'ed?

Is the word charabanc still used? I don't remember hearing it since the 1950s, and not much then.

If you acknowledge that 'fused' (electrical plug) is different to
'fussed' (bothered) then 'fused' cannot be an alternative spelling.
Neither is 'bused', wiktionary of no wiktionary.

--
athel

Living in Marseilles for 39 years; mainly in England before that,
with long periods in Singapore, California, Chile and Canada
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Phil <phil@anonymous.invalid> wrote:

On 01/07/2026 20:08, Richard Tobin wrote:

In article <MXc1S.831$Vos7.22@fx09.ams1>, Sam Plusnet <not@home.com> wrote:

I'm not keen.
Are people "trained" to some destination?
Boated? ("Shipped" refers to cargo, not people.)
Car-ed (however you might try to spell that)?
Coached? Charabanc'ed?

You might be carted off. Or bulldozered.

-- Richard

"My wife's gone to Indonesia"
"Jakarta?"
"No, she went by plane"

"Mine has gone to the Caribbean"
"Jamaica?"
"No, she wanted to go"
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In article <1125n0r$2jmo0$1@dont-email.me>,
Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org> wrote:

In Australia, primary and secondary education are state
responsibilities. State agencies control the funding, the syllabus, the >allocation of teachers to schools, etc. If there are any inequities,
it's up to the states to fix the problem. I believe it's much the same
in all European countries. Either states, where relevant, or some higher >level of government.

As I understand it, US schools are controlled at a more local level. If
a school is poor, it's because the local authority is funded by poor
people. What remedies are available for that problem?

US schools are controlled by school districts, which may be
independent or dependent municipal corporations or may be integrated
with another level of government. The vast majority of funding comes
from property taxes, and as a consequence of the 1970s "tax revolts"
-- which, not at all coincidentally, started at the same time as
school desegregation -- many local governments are strictly limited in
their ability to raise funds. Additional funding comes from state and
federal governments through a variety of programs and distributed
under a variety of different formulas. In some states, parents are
given a subsidy for putting their children in private or religious
schools, taking funds away from public schools. Rural and suburban
communities are often too small to support their own local schools and
form union school districts to spread the fixed costs over more
pupils.

In many places, school budgets are subject to plebiscite, either
annually or when an increase in the tax rate is proposed (or is over
some threshold). Communities where few parents have children in
public schools tend to vote against education.

In Vermont, which I mentioned upthread, half of the school taxes
collected are redistributed by the state on the basis of need; this
was a legislative settlement after the state supreme court declared
the inequality of education between rich and poor districts
unconstitutional. No other state does this, but many other states
subsidize schools on a statewide basis through dedicating some portion
of sales, income, or gambling taxes, typically on a per-child basis.

-GAWollman
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In article <1125pea$2k3ph$2@dont-email.me>,
Phil <phil@anonymous.invalid> wrote:

"My wife's gone to Indonesia"
"Jakarta?"
"No, she went by plane"

Excellent.

-- Richard
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Le 02/07/2026 |a 15:43, athel.cb@gmail.com a |-crit :

Sam Plusnet posted:

I'm not keen.
Are people "trained" to some destination?
Boated? ("Shipped" refers to cargo, not people.)
Car-ed (however you might try to spell that)?
Coached? Charabanc'ed?

Is the word charabanc still used? I don't remember hearing it since the 1950s,
and not much then.

I think it remains alive in jokey contexts. I recall remarking to Mme
Hibou that a train we took into Town late on a Friday afternoon was like
a tarts' charabanc. I hope the passengers had a pleasant evening.

It's interesting to flip between BrE and AmE here; the curves are rather different (I'll leave to others to do any further investigation): <https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=charabanc&year_start=1800&year_end=2022&corpus=en&smoothing=3&case_insensitive=false>

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Le 02/07/2026 |a 19:02, Hibou a |-crit :

Le 02/07/2026 |a 15:43, athel.cb@gmail.com a |-crit :

Is the word charabanc still used? I don't remember hearing it since
the 1950s,
and not much then.

I think it remains alive in jokey contexts. I recall remarking to Mme
Hibou that a train we took into Town late on a Friday afternoon was like
a tarts' charabanc. I hope the passengers had a pleasant evening.

It's interesting to flip between BrE and AmE here; the curves are rather different (I'll leave to others to do any further investigation): <https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph? content=charabanc&year_start=1800&year_end=2022&corpus=en&smoothing=3&case_insensitive=false>

Which reminds me of a tale of tarts by Maupassant - not 'Boule de suif'
(which is excellent, though with only one tart, and I don't think I've
ever understood the why of the Franco-Prussian War) - no - got it! - 'La maison Tellier'. Tarts on an outing in the country. It was made into a
film, or more than one film.

<https://www.audible.fr/blog/resume-la-maison-tellier> (in French)

Ben, voil|a.

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On 02/07/2026 15:43, athel.cb@gmail.com wrote:

Sam Plusnet <not@home.com> posted:

On 01/07/2026 11:12, occam wrote:

On 01/07/2026 11:52, Madhu wrote:

Wordle 1838 4/6 flirt money chugs bused

[not the nyt wordle, but the older one and since no one else seems to do >>>> it i have no compunction in spoiling anothers fun]

the wiktionary has BUSED as an alternate spelling of BUSSED.

bussing itself seems to be either the 1) act of being in (or made to be >>>> in) a bus (the vehicle) or clearing tables. both of which seem sketchy >>>> in the my usage universe. do others think it's legit?

Nothing wrong in 'bussed' in my usage, meaning carried in a bus. "The
evacuees were bussed to the nearest shelter". 'Bused' (beewzed) sounds
like abused.

I'm not keen.
Are people "trained" to some destination?
Boated? ("Shipped" refers to cargo, not people.)
Car-ed (however you might try to spell that)?
Coached? Charabanc'ed?

Is the word charabanc still used? I don't remember hearing it since the 1950s,
and not much then.

Not that I know of. It remains in my vocabulary simply because it is neglected and needs the occasional outing.
--
Sam Plusnet
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<athel.cb@gmail.com> wrote:

Sam Plusnet <not@home.com> posted:

On 01/07/2026 11:12, occam wrote:

On 01/07/2026 11:52, Madhu wrote:

Wordle 1838 4/6 flirt money chugs bused

[not the nyt wordle, but the older one and since no one else seems to do >> it i have no compunction in spoiling anothers fun]

the wiktionary has BUSED as an alternate spelling of BUSSED.

bussing itself seems to be either the 1) act of being in (or made to be >> in) a bus (the vehicle) or clearing tables. both of which seem sketchy >> in the my usage universe. do others think it's legit?

Nothing wrong in 'bussed' in my usage, meaning carried in a bus. "The evacuees were bussed to the nearest shelter". 'Bused' (beewzed) sounds like abused.

I'm not keen.
Are people "trained" to some destination?
Boated? ("Shipped" refers to cargo, not people.)
Car-ed (however you might try to spell that)?
Coached? Charabanc'ed?

Is the word charabanc still used? I don't remember hearing it since the 1950s,
and not much then.

My grandmother used it habitually `(she sometimes abbreviated it to
"chara") and I still use it occasionally.
--
~ Liz Tuddenham ~
(Remove the ".invalid"s and add ".co.uk" to reply)
www.poppyrecords.co.uk
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On 03/07/26 00:43, athel.cb@gmail.com wrote:

Is the word charabanc still used? I don't remember hearing it since the 1950s,
and not much then.

Oh, once there was a sultan
And he had a thousand wives.
He used to hire a charabanc
To take them out for drives.
It broke down in the desert once
Now here the trouble starts.
His wives were waiting in a line
And he had no spare parts.
Ay, ay ay ay
And the next wife told her tale.
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Newcastle, NSW
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